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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: The up button in web browsing mode (was clearer separation of
From:       Carlos Leonhard Woelz <carloswoelz () imap-mail ! com>
Date:       2003-12-18 22:45:57
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Manuel, I took the liberty of sending your message to bugs.kde.org.
And this is my reply:
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On Wednesday 17 December 2003 20:52, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:

>
> Using link rel up, with directory structure climb as fallback, I'm
> counting 7 to 3.
>
> I'll leave the task of counting LINK REL UP usability on HOWTO's to
> someone else.  My head hurts.
>

As you can see, this did not improve much the odds for the up button.
But his check made me think a bit about the up button:

The up button looks similar from the left and right buttons. But they perform 
very different tasks. The up button navigates in the tree structure, as the 
left and right follow the trail of visited urls.
In fact, the up button has more in common with LINK REL RIGHT and LEFT (let's 
call them navigating buttons) than with the left as right trail buttons as we 
use them (trail buttons).
Imagine that we would like to create in the merge toolbar the up, right and 
left navigating buttons. It makes sense creating them as we detect the LINK 
REL on the pages. Then it would be the perfect way to navigate html 
structured docs. We would want to make the icons look different, otherwise we 
would confuse them with the trail buttons. And we would end up with two up 
buttons looking differently and doing the same thing. See?

I said that I liked this button, and only wanted to change it because of the 
usability for the average user. I changed my mind. I want to change it 
because of that _and_ because it does not make logical sense to mix 
navigating and trail buttons. And more: the up button should be graphically 
different from the left and right buttons to state that it has a different 
function. This way you could implement the merge navigation toolbar if you 
wanted. (And it is a nice addition).
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